ceil

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They refused to be separated from him, and built their ceils round that of their spiritual father.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

As soon as the sentence was pronounced, I was taken to the ceils under the court.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

The Provost's tenement, of all the lesser houses in the burgh, was the only one that stood in its outer entirety, its arched ceils proof against the malevolent fire.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Many of the E.P.S. ceils, made by the Electrical Power Storage Company, are of the Faure or pasted type, but the Plante formation is used for the positives of two kinds of cell.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg